Kudos Evan for this project. Seeing as businesses are in total crap right now (Rosario's), working with these people to find them a OSS solution will eventually pay off in the long run.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Evan Brown<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Michael Chaney <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> They're best off getting a decent POS system with excellent support >> from someone who will support it. Even if you find a FOSS solution, >> you will have to support it, meaning if their business goes down, >> they'll track you down. Something like that could easily cost them >> thousands of dollars. You probably don't want to deal with it. > > You may be right there, but this is also a small business (~40 seats) that > is only open evenings. Their current system for running bar tabs is all > paperwork and i know from experience (helped them out last friday) that it > doesnt work when it gets busy. who knows how much money they are losing on > busy nights because of the antiquated system. > > I downloaded and installed this openbravo pos that from everything i see is > completely free. its really slick and seems to be very user friendly and > very configurable. seeing as their size is small, its not something that > would have multiple terminals and the db server in the back room or > something, just one terminal. > > anyway, the warning is being heeded. this isnt anywhere near a done deal, > its actually more of a, "this is your problem, and this is a way to fix it" > type situation. > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
